The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

fHr Mississippi river is frozen over solid
At Cairo.
THERE is no end Of the year like the
dividend.
THE next Connecticut Legislature will
contain l1a farmers.
A SCHUYLER, Neb., man ate eghty-six
oysters Mt one sitting.
A boy has been born in Kansas with eyes
in the back Of his head.
A eouRp in Barren County, KY, holds
twelve and half gallons.
MORMON elders are making many con-
iverts in Eastern Mississippi
THE cold weather In Florida causes
alarm about the orange crop.
THERE are 100 colored men in Washing
ton who ore worth $4,000 each.
A TEXAS preacher predicts that the world
will come TO an end in ten years.
LOUISIANA now aspires to be the great
lhay-prohctng State Of the Union.
THE new year opened bright with prom
ises for the plumbers and coal dealers.
New YeRK CITY drinks 100000 barrels
'of beer every year, at a cost Of ssS, 400, 600.
KANSAS CITY claims to have population
icf 132, 600, and including her suburbs 19O,-
1000.
A CARLOAD Of hickory nuts has boon
shipped frsn Blissfeld, Mich, to Califor-
mia.
THE rcd-noscd man, during the recent
cold snap, WAS not regarded with suspi-
Icion.
In the East there is practically nothing
left Of the custom Of making New Years
calls.
The grave and monument of Oliver Gold
smith in London are in condition of sad
neglect.
Mis-. MCCLELLAN, widow of the General,
and her daughter have gone to Italy for
the winter.
SENATOR KESNA recently gave q dinner
at which he skillfully carved u whole
roasted deer.
THERE are 4,166 newspapers and period
icals of all sorts published regularly in the
United States.
A New HAVEN Comm man has brought
suit for $4,000 damages against u widow
who Tilted him.
THERE are garlands of fame waiting for
the man who shall invent millionuire's
will that wills
THE reports from ten Southern States
show an increase in the iron output, since
1880, Of 565, 200 tons.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND shook hands with
three thousand persons at the New Yeur's
reception ut the White House.
THE cost Of postage stamps to the Gov
ernment, covering every thing, including
delivery, Is - 80 per thousand.
THERE are signs that the tithe war in
Wales, SO far from dying a natural death,
Is really gathering fresh vigor.
THE Italian people are about to erect q
monument to Garibald on the Janiculum,
in Rome, to cost 100000 francs.
HIRAM p. REvELs, the first colored man
elected TO the United States Senate, is now
q well-to-do farmer in Mississippi.
In no one year since the beginning of
cur Government have 80 many prominent
Government officials died Us in 1886.
ACCORDING to the dispatches of the past
few days, the leading question seems to
have been: "Has Secretary Lamar lost his
Holtf"
"JIn CuxxINes' will be able to study
the "Polite Letter Writer" behind the bars
ct the Missouri Penitentiary for the next
seven years.
IT is reported that enterprising farmers
In Kansas have sent to Alabama for cotton
seed to experiment with the great staple
In their climate.
MozART's tomb is as unknown as that of
Noses. But his monument will be placed
next to the tombs Of Schubert and Bee
thoven, ut Vienna.
THE ST. Louis Repu6lienn says that it is
not exactly the fair thing that Michigan
should have three United States Senators.
Jones should resign.
THE last book that General Logan read
was the biography Of General r. L. Lee.
He finished the book the day before his
fatal sickness began.
LORD TESNysoN persists in his determi-
nation to write poem to the Battenberg
baby. All England seems to be down on
the poor little princelet-
DKEssMAKERs Of New York complain Of
their long hours and low wages, and de-
nounce the "bargain counters" as among
the causes Of these evils.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN vigorously pro-
tests against violation by the Illinois
Live Stock Commission of tho rules relat-
ing to pleuro-pneumonia.
A WIDOW in Oakland, CAL, has sued q
newspaper for libel because in it's obituary
notice of her husband it spoke of his hav-
ing ''gone to q happier home"
BE of good heart, ye who have turned
over new leaf. It Is difficult to keep faith
the first few days of your good resolutions,
but it will BIO easier after awhile.
SPoRTsMEN will BIO glad to know that the
Wisconsin Legislature is likely this winter
to enact more stringent law protecting
wild ducks during the spring season.
TIE King of the Sandwich Islands has
lsquandered in riotous living some $4,000
which his poor subjects had placed on de-
,posit in the Honolulu savings banks.
THE latest fashionable fad is for the
young women to industriously eat pepper
mint candy ut the theaters. They evidently
intend to get even with their clove-chewing
escorts.
| GEORGE WARRINGTON, William Penn and
sChristopher Columbus went on terrible
isprce in New York New Years Day, il the
!police docket Of the next morning is to be
believed.
!, THE salaries and mileage Of United
States Senators last year amounted to
1854, 7.68, and the salaries of officers,
clerks and employees Of tho Senate to
1894 ,90l.60.
BERLIN celebrated on New Years, tho
,oightieth anniversary Of the day upon
which, while only lad Of ten, the present
German Emperor received his commission
as ensign of the Foot Guards.
DRY H. HALE, an Edinburgh physician, ]
who is travelling In this country, has cane
which he says cost $500. The head con-
tains over three pounds of eighteen karat |
gold, and IL mounted with sixty-tye dia- |